Visits End, Agent Barnes Says Suh Set for Draft
NFL Countdown | by Mike O'Hara | 04.14.2010/1:33PM
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Ndamukong Suh will do more than sit idly until his name is called in next week’s NFL draft, but the tour of teams who might draft the All-American defensive tackle from Nebraska has ended.
On Wednesday, Suh completed his visit with the St. Louis Rams, who have the top pick on the first round on Thursday, April 22. Previously, Suh had visited the Lions, who have the second pick, and the Tampa Bay Bucs, who draft third.
The Rams appear locked in on making Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford the first pick. That would leave Suh to the Lions, who have a desperate need to upgrade the defense after finishing last in the league in defense for three straight years.
Roosevelt Barnes, Suh’s agent and a former Lions linebacker, reiterated on Wednesday his comment of a month ago about the favorable impression Suh got in his visit to the Lions.
“He’s got a good feeling about Detroit,” Barnes said in a telephone interview. “He just wants to know where he’s going to be playing.”
Suh has plans until draft day.
“He’s going to keep working out, and go to Nebraska’s spring game (this weekend),” Barnes said. “He’ll be at school. Then he’ll go to New York for the draft.”
Suh’s camp has not conceded that the Rams will draft Bradford No. 1.
“I don’t think it’s an absolute given,” Barnes said.
But all signs point that way.
Rams GM Billy Devaney has been quoted as saying positive things about Bradford. In a recent interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Devaney compared Bradford’s character to that of Colts quarterback Peyton Manning.
The only impact such platitudes have on the Lions is that it tips the scale toward St. Louis drafting Bradford – and leaving Suh on the board for the Lions.
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